“This is unacceptable. There’s no evidence to this,” Kevin McCarthy said.
North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a 26-year-old rising star in the Republican Party, has come under GOP fire after he claimed people in Washington had invited him to sex parties and used cocaine.Republicans on Capitol Hill appeared frustrated with the weeklong controversy sparked by Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who made unsubstantiated claims in a recent interview that some of his colleagues invited him to sex parties and used cocaine.
Cawthorn's Republican colleagues have been quick to distance themselves from his comments and have denounced the allegations. "My comments on a recent podcast appearance calling out corruption have been used by the left and the media to disparage my Republican colleagues and falsely insinuate their involvement in illicit activities," CawthornHis statement comes two days after he was called in for a meeting with House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and other Republican leaders.
"The Constitution gives you the age when you could serve in Congress. But when you're in Congress, you should respect the institution and you should focus on the work that you should do," McCarthy said. Cawthorn's office did not return multiple requests for comment to ABC News, nor has Cawthorn provided proof to back up his claims.
"If you say something like that, you corroborate that with other people," Nehls said."Listen, we all make mistakes in our lives."
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